Lyceum
[laɪ'siəm]
解釋/意思:
(n.) A place of exercise with covered walks, in the suburbs of Athens, where Aristotle taught philosophy.
(n.) A house or apartment appropriated to instruction by lectures or disquisitions.
(n.) A higher school, in Europe, which prepares youths for the university.
(n.) An association for debate and literary improvement.
手打:内蒂
解釋/意思:
n. a place devoted to instruction by lectures: an association for literary improvement.
編輯:史蒂夫
例句/造句/用法:
- Winsor takes British patent for Illuminating Gas, lights Lyceum Theatre, and organizes First Gas Company. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Later on, after Plato was dead, he set up a school at the Lyceum in Athens and taught, criticizing Plato and Socrates with a certain hardness. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The state seems to have assigned the Academy to Plato, the Lyceum to Aristotle, and the Portico to Zeno of Citta, the founder of the Stoics. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The students of the Lyceum under his direction made an analysis of 158 political constitutions. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Fifty years after Aristotle's death the Lyceum had already dwindled to insignificance. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
整理:普雷斯利